Quicktime exports Faded

[Noise]

Hi

When I export a movie as a quicktime, the result always comes out faded and with less contrast and saturation.

Does anyone get this and if so, what do you do to get around it ?

Thanks

N

[instinct]

Google for QT and Gamma. QT has a gamma bug since ages and it's driving pretty much everyone insane :P

Here's some info and a small tool to hack the header of QT files
http://support.na.primefocusworld.co...php?f=18&t=630


Regards,
Thorsten

[Neilg]

I've had no luck at all with that, I just use a different exporter. Some people seem to get it fixed easily though.

I found super is good if that doesnt work for you.
http://www.erightsoft.org/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe
Export your animation as an uncompressed AVI, then encode it to a h.264 .mov using that software.



I have no idea how they've managed to leave this bug in for god knows how many years and get away with it. It's a deal breaker for h.264 and I doubt even autodesk would be this lax about a fix.

[instinct]

As a sidenote what weirdly works is moving the edge of the player SLIGHTLY out of the screen if you got dual monitors. Let the mouse go and experience correct gamma ( *slaps apple* )

Regards,
Thorsten

[Morne]

Yes its amazing that just about everybody knows about the stupid gamma issue. What is more amazing is those same people still use it everyday. Seems *.mov (h264) is the way to go apparently, even with the bugs and all. Amazing isn't it?

I mean what alternative do we have for multi platform and some kind of "industry standard"?

[instinct]

Anything non-container (aka image sequences). Tho clients tend to hate that :P

Regards,
Thorsten

[Neilg]

We had a job a while ago where the client posted us an external HD and we delivered the whole thing as folders of frames. It was a liberating experience, I tell you.

[glyph]

Bink

amazing quality for samll sizes
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm

downside: it produces an .exe
good as it needs no player (you can play the exe on Mac using the special Mac player)
bad in that some clients dont like exe
and cant be played over internet

[Morne]

Bink

amazing quality for samll sizes
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm

downside: it produces an .exe
good as it needs no player (you can play the exe on Mac using the special Mac player)
bad in that some clients dont like exe
and cant be played over internet

Yes but for commercial work don't you need to sign up for some kind of license deal?

[3sgteMKI]

We had a job a while ago where the client posted us an external HD and we delivered the whole thing as folders of frames. It was a liberating experience, I tell you.

Where do you find these types of clients?

[Noise]

What an astonishing pain in the baltox.

It looks grand in Premiere and I didn't realise how poor the contrast was until I had spent a few days away from the movie - its cronically bad.

Unfortunately the exporting to the uncompressed avi didn't really get the result that I wanted so, the work around hunt continues.

[Olli96]

One way to fix that Gamma Bug is to do the following (Thanks to Heroblob from 3d-palace.com):

* Open the file in Quicktime, choose Windows -> Show Movie Properties
* Select the Video Track and then click on the Visual Settings Tab
* Change the transprency to Blend and drag the Slider to 100%
* Change the transparency again -> set it to Straight Alpha
* Close the Movie Properties, hit any Play Control Button to refresh the File and re-save it.

[Noise]

Unbelievable, that worked !

Thanks Olli.

[Noise]

Since the last post, the process Oli mentioned does work for providing more contrast but, it also makes the movies file stick during playback - which is a shame.

It also seem that it is the h.264 codec which is the cause of the faded output.

I find MPeg4 the best quality to size but it has banding problems with gradient graphics.

[Olli96]

it also makes the movies file stick during playback - which is a shame.

Really? Never experienced that over here...I am using QT 7.6 (1292) and usually Adobe Premieres Media Encoder to create my Quicktime files. Adobe CS3 that is.